Holocaust desecration, denial, and abuse, have all been components of Palestinian Authority ideology. Palestinians from both Fatah and Hamas have accused Israel of burning Palestinians in ovens, and alternatively have accused Zionists of committing the Holocaust against Jews for political, financial or social gain. A PA TV children’s broadcast taught that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens, and at an exhibit in Gaza children put dolls, representing Palestinian children, in a model oven adorned with a Star of David and a swastika. A PA daily wrote: "The exhibit includes a large oven and inside it small [Palestinian] children are being burned; the picture speaks for itself,” as if the exhibit was documenting something true. [Al-Ayyam, March 20, 2008] The event was sponsored by the Palestinian “National Committee for Defense of Children from the Holocaust.”

A senior Palestinian academic taught adults on PA TV: “There was no Dachau, no Auschwitz; these were disinfecting sites.” A Hamas TV documentary explained that it was Jewish leaders who planned the Holocaust, in order to eliminate Jews who were "disabled and handicapped”.

A crossword puzzle clue in the official PA daily identified “Yad Vashem” (Israel’s Holocaust memorial) as a “Center for the Holocaust and Lies.” The same PA daily has published many articles denying the Holocaust, including one that termed the Holocaust a “hen laying golden eggs.”

Schoolbooks produced by the Palestinian Ministry of Education teach the history of World War II in great detail except for the history of the Holocaust, which is totally ignored. One history book goes so far as to teach that Nazism was a racist ideology and that there were trials of Nazi war criminals, but it leaves out that Jews were the target of the racism, and the crimes for which the Nazis were on trial.

Palestinian education erases the actual Holocaust from history and usurps the word “Holocaust” or its own wide range of malicious libels.

This video depicts a PA TV children’s play teaching that Israel burned Palestinians in ovens.

"They [Israel] are the ones who did the Holocaust,
their knife cuts to the length and the width of our flesh...
They opened ovens for us, to bake human beings.
They destroyed the villages and burnt the cities.
And when an oven stops burning, they light a hundred [more] ovens.
Their hands are covered with the blood of our children."

[PA TV (Fatah), March 25, 2004]

In addition, admiration of Hitler continues to be a component of the PA world. A PA funded children’s publication published an essay written by a teenage girl admiring Hitler, who told the Palestinian girl in her dream: "I killed them [the Jews] so you would all know
that they are a nation which spreads destruction all over the world." This essay published in 2011, yet in spite of broad international condemnation following PMW’s exposure, it was not removed from the Palestinian educational website Zayzafuna, when we last checked in Oct. 2013.

Since 2012, there have been a number of statements by the PA or PLO officials acknowledging the Holocaust. This has not yet been incorporated into PA formal education.

An image shows a montage of three photographs; the one on the left apparently shows soldiers in World War II, while the two on the right show large stacks of dead bodies piled in mass graves during the Holocaust.
Text below image: "One of the Russian prisoners in World War II wrote in his memoirs: 'In 1941 the Germans made us dig deep pits in the ground. When we finished doing what they wanted, they brought a group of Jews, threw them into the pits, and ordered us to bury them. We refused to carry out this atrocious act. So the Germans ordered to throw us in instead of the Jews, and ordered them to bury us. The Jews began to pour dirt on us without hesitation. The dirt almost covered us, but the Germans stopped them and took us out. We were surprised when the German commander shouted at us: "I just wanted you to know who the Jews are and why we are killing them!"'"Click to view bulletin
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"The [American] administration can’t do this. Through the Warsaw Conference it wishes… to establish new alliances for the purpose of false wars and the consolidation of an arrangement for the Palestinian cause, while relying on [US President Donald] Trump's Zionist deal (apparently referring to Trump's as yet unpublished Middle East peace plan –Ed.) as a basis for this arrangement, which is nothing but a plan to carry out a 'holocaust' against this cause, the most just cause of the current age…
Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Warsaw will serve as the site for the convening of this conference [on] the American administration's failed deal; this is the just ruse of history, which wishes to remind humanity that the holocausts of racist eradication that Nazi Germany carried out in Poland can happen again today as a result of this American policy. It wishes to turn Warsaw – as the Nazis did – into an arena of holocaust of eradication against a small, oppressed, and tortured people, the Palestinian people."Click to view bulletin
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Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on the 70th anniversary of the Al-Dawayima Massacre

PA TV showed a picture of dead bodies arranged in piles on the ground, presenting it as from Al- Dawayima. The source of the picture is the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, originally a subcamp of Buchenwald, and the bodies shown are those of Holocaust victims.

Al-Dawayima - On Oct. 29, 1948, during Israel’s War of Independence, during a battle for the capture of the Arab village of Al-Dawayima in Southern Israel, in addition to combatants, Arabs civilians were also killed. Accounts differ as to whether the civilians were killed during the fighting, as the combatants were fighting from the homes, or were killed after the fighting. While some sources claim a death toll of over 100, a UN report stated that 30 Arab women and children died in the incident.

Masoud Rayyaan, lecturer on Islamic Shari'a at Al-Quds Open University, in Friday sermon on official PA TV: (Quran):“Proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied”... The occupation government hasn't learned from history, from the corruption of the Children of Israel the first and second time. It hasn't learned. They [The Jews] didn’t learn from what Nebuchadnezzar did to them. They didn’t learn from what Titus, the great Roman leader, did to them. They didn't learn from what Hitler did to them, and the kings of Europe, and Spain – they didn't learn. They have continued to behave the same way: The mentality of arrogance toward other people. The mentality of superiority over other people. The mentality of seclusion, the mentality of settlement. This mentality, an ideology of planning and systematically working to incite wars and strife in the entire world. Those [Jews] have not learned from the events of history." Click to view videoClick to view bulletin

Official PA TV program Quranic Horizons, lecture on Sura 2:114 of the Quran by Supreme Shari’ah Judge, Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice Mahmoud Al-Habbash

"Today, the most prominent mosque that the people are prevented from coming to is the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Barriers, closures, the closure of routes and gates,and limiting the ages [of worshippers] – this is a new craft that we are hearing of for the first time: You are not allowed to pray because you are younger than 40, and you are forbidden… how nice! What is this? In what period of history are we living? In the Inquisition's courts? What was done to them – in the ghetto, in the Inquisition's courts, and in the Nazis' courts – they want to do this to people. Are we in the Inquisition, or what? Israeli Zionist Inquisition courts that are attempting to demean human dignity, the dignity of the people's religion, and the people's faith in Allah...'"

Excerpt of an op-ed by Muwaffaq Matar, regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: “Trump’s veto is fitting, because the dictator does not defend the victim”
“[US President Donald] Trump’s representative at the [UN] Security Council [US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley] was completely honest and coordinated with her master and president’s policy when she said: ‘Of course we will vote against a resolution to defend the Palestinians’ (sic., PMW found no record of such a statement in Haley’s condemnation of a Kuwaiti resolution calling for “international protection” for Gaza; see note below –Ed.). This is because this racist [Trump], the copy of Hitler, does not want to see us free but rather dead, uprooted, expelled, and captive. He is happy to see us hungry, chasing the American sack of flour and leaving the principle of freedom thousands of miles behind us.”Click to view bulletin

"President Mahmoud Abbas stated on Friday that 'if people were offended by my statement in front of the PNC, especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize to them. I would like to assure everyone that it was not my intention to do so, and to reiterate my full respect for the Jewish faith, as well as other monotheistic faiths.'
He continued, 'I would also like to reiterate our long held condemnation of the Holocaust, as the most heinous crime in history, and express our sympathy with its victims.'
'Likewise, we condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms, and confirm our commitment to the two-state solution, and to live side by side in peace and security.'”

Excerpt of op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily

"Netanyahu and his fellow anti-Semitic Khazar Zionists know that President Mahmoud Abbas was referring to the cooperation between Hitler's Nazi regime and the Zionist movement in the colonization of historical Palestine in 1933. However, he did not deny the Holocaust. He said that the massacres and conflicts that erupted every 10 to 15 years between the Europeans and the Khazar Jews arose from their nature as usurers and from their exploitation of the peoples of Europe for their personal goals…
The president did not deny the Holocaust, but rather diagnosed the causes and background of the Holocaust. He also did not turn his back on peace, but rather declared his adherence to a political arrangement, as he understands that the Jews have been misled – that the Zionist movement forced them to immigrate to Palestine – [and] do not bear the main responsibility; those who are fully responsible are those that stood behind the Zionist colonialist enterprise…"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's actual statement on May 2, 2018, regarding PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ anti-Semitic speech to the Palestinian National Council on April 30, 2018: "Mahmoud Abbas gave another anti-Semitic speech. With utmost ignorance and insolence he claimed that the Jews of Europe were persecuted and murdered not because they were Jews, but because they engaged in usury. Mahmoud Abbas again recites the most despicable anti-Semitic slogans. Apparently a Holocaust denier remains a Holocaust denier. I call on the international community to condemn Mahmoud Abbas' grave antisemitism, whose time has come to pass from the world."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "The sons of Jacob were 12. Where did you bring 13 from? They invented it. Where? In the Khazar Kingdom. When? In the 9th century. It was an irreligious kingdom. Afterwards it became a Jewish kingdom. The emperor converted to Judaism and therefore [the kingdom] converted to Judaism. Afterwards it broke apart, and all its residents migrated to Europe, and these are the Ashkenazi Jews (this claim is rejected by experts and genetic testing confirms uniform origin of the different Jewish communities-Ed.). The Ashkenazi Jews are not Semites, and they have no connection to Semitism or Abraham, Jacob, or others. It was a Tatar-Turkic state... Second, these Jews who migrated to eastern and western Europe were subjected to massacres by some state every 10 to 15 years from the 11th century until the Holocaust that took place in Germany. OK, but why did this happen? They say: 'Because we are Jews.'... The hatred of the Jews is not due to their religion, but rather due to their social role. If so, it's a different issue. And therefore, the Jewish problem that was common in all of the states of Europe against the Jews was not due to their religion, but rather due to their social role that was connected to usury, and banks, and so forth... Now we are talking about the Jewish homeland. They are talking about longing for Zion and that's why they are going [there] and so forth. I say - not me, rather history says that these words are baseless."Click to view bulletinClick to view video
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Excerpt of an op-ed by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: “The aggression against Syria – Israel is the fourth in number and benefits the most”
“I do not believe that colonialist, neo-racist, Hitleresque, Balfouresque [US President Donald] Trump is interested in the welfare of a single Syrian and his right to live, since the same Trump justifies the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the officers of the occupation’s army, its soldiers, and its settlers, and he defends these crimes. He knows with certainty that these are orders of the political and military elite in the occupation state’s government. He is joining Israel in a rebellion against the international institutions, and is activating the terror of a superpower against those opposing his policy – so what brainless person would believe his claims that he cares about the Syrians’ right to live and is protecting them from chemical weapon attacks?”Click to view bulletin
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Political analyst Hani Abu Zaid: "[The Israelis] cried over the false Holocaust in Hitler's days, and it wasn't in such large numbers. I want to note –" (PA TV host): "That's a lie they have spread throughout the world." Political analyst Hani Abu Zaid: "Indeed, it was a lie. Many of the Israelis or the Jews conspired with Hitler in order to create a gateway to Palestine to bring the settlers. Therefore, the policy of settlement and colonialism is in the blood of these people."Click to view video

PA TV misappropriated a photo showing hundreds of dead bodies at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, originally a subcamp of Buchenwald, presenting them as Arabs killed by Jews on April 9, 1948 in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. The actual picture, which was taken right after liberation of the concentration camp by the American army, was carefully distorted by PA TV so that the images of the corpses in the striped concentration camp uniforms, the American soldiers, and the concentration camp buildings were not seen. The following caption was added by PA TV: “When they killed and mutilated the bodies of 250 women, children and elderly residents.”

The PA TV video, which was broadcast on the anniversary of the Deir Yassin battle, also included a photo of victims of the massacre at the 1982 Sabra and Shatila refugee camp by Christian Lebanese, which was likewise misrepresented as showing Arabs who were killed by Jews. Click to view bulletin
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Official PA TV program The Philosophy of Patience, on PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ doctoral thesis

Official PA TV narrator: “[Then] Palestinian-Soviet Friendship Association Chairman [Mahmoud Abbas] worked on a doctoral thesis, which he published in a valuable book called ‘The Other Side – The Secret Connection Between Nazism and Zionism.’
In this book, Abbas exposed through documents the global Zionist movement’s connections with the Nazi government and the agreements that the Zionists and Nazis signed, and particularly the Ha’avara Agreement – a word in Hebrew meaning transfer (the 1933-1939 Ha’avara Agreement was an arrangement for Jews to leave Germany for the Land of Israel –Ed.).”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ friend Khader Al-Zafiri: “...[Abbas] spoke sublimely in defense of his thesis; Abbas has verbal and rhetoric capabilities, and he really defended his thesis. We sat, and then the president of the supervisory committee of the Institute of Oriental Studies got up and he asked brother Abbas a question: ‘Do you have the documents that prove your words?’ And he took [his thesis] and said: ‘I have 93 documents that prove what I’m saying.’ And he read the summary of the first document, etc., etc., etc., and even the documents that were in his possession that he had obtained from Israel. In any case, he graduated with honors and the Institute of Oriental Studies asked that the doctoral thesis be published as a book in Russian.”

Narrator: “Student Mahmoud Abbas defended his thesis, ‘The Other Side,’ and received the title of doctor at the University (sic., Institute) of Oriental Studies.”

Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV host: "This 'deal of the century,' does Trump expect you to accept it?" ...Fatah Movement Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: "Yes, he thinks that all he saw among the Arabs was that they dance and forget themselves. He takes their money and tricks them... He says: 'There is no Iraq. There are rival factions.' Iraq is the second largest oil reserve in the world, estimated at 15 trillion. [And Trump says:] 'It is ours. We will not retreat, it is ours.' If they besiege him and make an arrangement for you, he will say: 'They should pay a trillion - a trillion and a half immediately.' What is this? He is Gestapo. O Allah, expose and reveal this! When your opponent is an ignoramus, by the way, you win."Click to view bulletin
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Official PA TV program The Philosophy of Patience, on PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ doctoral thesis

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "I finished university and obtained [a degree] in law, and afterward I received a doctorate from Moscow from the Institute of Oriental Studies [of the Soviet Academy of Sciences] in a surprising subject, for which I am insulted to this day in Israel. It is the secret connections between Nazi Germany and the Zionist movement.
How? What? What happened? Actually, I examined it in depth and reached the conclusion that there was close cooperation that began in 1933 and did not end in 1946. What is called economic and human cooperation that is connected to the expulsion of the Jews. This is firm and there is no dispute about it (sic., many have disputed and debunked the claims of Nazi-Zionist collusion). From here– this is one of the books for which I got a doctorate, and I had no choice but to explain myself through ideas that I want to suggest, and I wrote 20 books about the Zionist movement. This has no connection– it was published, all of these books were published. Afterward I began to write history, our history. This history cannot be published as I wrote it in a realistic manner. In other words, I mean that I wrote down everything that happened, without flattering anyone. What happened - we did this, and what happened - I spoke about it. I have written 70 books, but they have not been published."

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on Jews having no history in “Palestine,” with PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas

PA TV “Israeli affairs expert” Fayez Abbas reading from Israeli newspaper: “[Israeli Minister of Education] Naftali Bennett: ‘A people that invents the past has no future.’”Official PA TV host: “Who is inventing the past?”Fayez Abbas: “[Bennett:] 'The Palestinian people and leadership that are inventing the past, who were in those lands.' It seems that Naftali Bennett’s grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather lived here. At the most, his father came from Poland, at the most. Should those who have no history and no past- it is all false fables about the Land of Israel and Abraham, that he is their father and grandfather, and their grandmother Sarah. It is all a big lie..."Fayez Abbas: “Him, them, they falsify history. It’s as if someone would come and say: ‘There was no Holocaust of Jews in Nazi Germany. Six million Jews were not killed in Germany. That is a big lie, Yair Lapid.’"
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"Bahraini, Palestinian, and Arab official and national figures submitted a memorandum to UN Secretary-General António Guterres as a sign of solidarity and support for the rights of the Palestinians in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), and this was for International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians of 1948 (apparently refers to Solidarity Day for Palestinians in Israel, observed on Jan. 30 since 2016, not an official international day – Ed.)… The signatories to the memorandum expressed their absolute support for the affairs of the Arab-Palestinian public, which has remained in its homeland and on its land and the land of its forefathers since the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) that befell the fighting Palestinian people in 1948… In a petition to Guterres, the memorandum said: ' We wish to present before you some of the acts being carried out by those you described as victims of the Holocaust, so that together with you we will be vigilant about the spread of hatred, and so that the world will know who the real victims of the large holocaust that took place in 1948 are, and who the people is that is undergoing a holocaust now, in the 21st century, before the eyes of the entire world.'"
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Headline: "The north"
"The Fatah Movement organized a mass procession in the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp that set out from Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat Square in the old refugee camp, with the participation of the Palestinian popular factions and committees in northern [Lebanon]…
Leader of the north branch and Secretary of the factions and Fatah in Nahr Al-Bared Abu Salim Ghneim gave a speech on behalf of Fatah and said: …‘We see the Jerusalem Intifada and its heroic popular resistance as a national achievement that came in response to the racist and criminal policies, the summary executions, the burning of families, the continuation of settlement, and the Judaization and tearing apart of Jerusalem, and also as a natural response to [US President Donald] Trump's Nazi decision to consider Jerusalem the capital of “Israel,” and his threat to transfer his country's embassy to Jerusalem.’"
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Official PA TV program Topic of the Day, on reactions to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the PLO Central Council, hosting Director-General of the Jordanian Dar Al-Orouba Center for Political Research Sultan Al-Hattab

Director-General of the Jordanian Dar Al-Orouba Center for Political Research Sultan Al-Hattab: "[PA President Mahmoud Abbas] wanted to educate all the listeners at the [PLO] Central Council regarding the depth and roots of the struggle over Palestine and the aspirations regarding it.

Thus these aspirations began to consolidate within the Zionist movement, which led to the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) through a conspiracy between Zionism and the colonialist states.

President Abbas wrote about this conspiracy through a large collection of books whose number exceeds 60, the most prominent of them being [about ] the conspiracy and alliance between Zionism and Nazism, and also between the different European Imperialist [states] - and especially Britain which had [British Foreign Secretary Arthur] Balfour of the ominous promise - and Zionist Jewish [Lord Lionel Walter] Rothschild, who corresponded with [Balfour] (Referring to Abbas' book The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism, based on then thesis he wrote in 1982 –Ed.)."

The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that “His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate “responsible for putting into effect the declaration,” which led to the UN vote in 1947 and the establishment of the State of Israel.

Posted text in English (all errors in source): “I dont see any different, do you ? #HandsOffAlQuds”

The image shows a photo of US President Donald Trump at the top, and a photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler at the bottom. The post comes as a response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, see note below.Click to view bulletin

US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel - On Dec. 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and instructed the State Department to begin preparations to transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump added that the final borders of Jerusalem will be determined during negotiations.